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On this day in history .. Friday, July 25, 2008

• 0841 - Battle at Fontenay: Louis & Charles beat their brother Lotharius I
• 1139 - Count Alfonso I of Portugal becomes king
• 1215 - Frederik II (20) crowned king of German
• 1261 - Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople
• 1360 - Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
• 1511 - Portugese assault on city Malakka attack
• 1519 - San Cristob l de la Habana forms in Cuba
• 1521 - About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent
• 1564 - Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor
• 1570 - Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French govt army
• 1585 - Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
• 1593 - France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic
• 1652 - Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
• 1670 - Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
• 1670 - Don Juan Domingo Zu¤iga y Fonseca becomes gov-gen of Southern Neth
• 1670 - Vienna Austria expels Jews
• 1689 - France declares war on England
• 1729 - North Carolina becomes a royal colony
• 1759 - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War)
• 1775 - Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
• 1792 - Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
• 1799 - French-Egyptian forces under Napolean I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
• 1814 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
• 1814 - George Stephenson introduced the 1st steam locomotive
• 1822 - Gen Agust¡n de Iturbide crowned Agust¡n I, 1st emperor of M‚xico
• 1832 - 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies
• 1835 - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
• 1848 - 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian
• 1850 - Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
• 1860 - 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yales)
• 1861 - Washington DC - Crittenden resolution is passed stating that the war is to be fought to preserve union & uphold the Constitution, not to alter slavery
• 1861 - Skirmish at Fort Fillmore, NM Terr - Rebels attack Union troops
• 1863 - Skirmish at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia
• 1866 - 25th Postmaster General: Alexander W Randall of Wis takes office
• 1866 - David Faragut appointed as 1st admiral of US Navy
• 1866 - US Grant named 1st general of Army
• 1868 - US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
• 1871 - Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
• 1898 - 1st US troops land & occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
• 1900 - Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match
• 1902 - James J Jeffries KOs Bob Fitzsimmons in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1903 - Castle on top of Telegraph Hill closes
• 1909 - France's Louis Bl‚riot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel
• 1912 - Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
• 1913 - Carl Weilman strikes out 6 times in a 15 inning game
• 1913 - Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies
• 1914 - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
• 1914 - Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
• 1916 - Explosion at Lake Erie & Cleveland Waterworks
• 1918 - Annette Adams sworn in as 1st woman district attorney of US, Calif
• 1918 - Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
• 1920 - Red Sox turn triple-play, but Ruth's 35th HR leads Yanks to 8-2 win
• 1922 - AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
• 1923 - German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
• 1930 - Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
• 1933 - 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
• 1934 - Failed nazi coup in Austria
• 1936 - 115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx
• 1938 - Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
• 1938 - Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
• 1939 - 5th & last Dutch govt of Colijn, forms
• 1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win
• 1940 - John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hrs 46 mins in the Mississippi R
• 1941 - FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
• 1941 - Red Sox Lefty Grove becomes 12th to win 300 games (his last victory)
• 1942 - German troops occupy Rostov
• 1942 - German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
• 1943 - 1st warship named for a Black person, SS Leonard Roy Harmon, launched
• 1943 - Benito Mussolini captured, dismissed as premier of Italy during WW II
• 1943 - Opposition group Zwaantje forms in Delfzijl
• 1943 - RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam
• 1944 - -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
• 1944 - 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
• 1944 - Allied jailbreak at St-L“ (behind German lines)
• 1944 - US troop march into Guam
• 1944 - USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-L“
• 1946 - 1st bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
• 1946 - US detonates underwater A-bomb at Bikini (5th atomic explosion)
• 1947 - US Air Force, Navy & War Dept form US Dept of Defense
• 1947 - US Department of Army created
• 1949 - St Louis Cardinal Stan Musial hits for the cycle beating Bkln 14-1
• 1952 - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
• 1952 - Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth
• 1953 - NYC transit fare rises from 10› to 15›, 1st use of subway tokens
• 1954 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
• 1956 - 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
• 1956 - Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
• 1956 - Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
• 1957 - Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
• 1957 - Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England v WI Headingley
• 1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• 1960 - Company Industrielle et ForestŠre (Indufor) forms in Brussels
• 1960 - US Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate
• 1961 - Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 & 40 in a doubleheader
• 1962 - House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
• 1963 - Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
• 1963 - US, Russia & England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
• 1964 - "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
• 1964 - Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks
• 1964 - Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
• 1964 - Race riot in Rochester NY
• 1965 - Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
• 1965 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
• 1966 - Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
• 1966 - Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."
• 1966 - Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
• 1966 - Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
• 1966 - Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
• 1967 - Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
• 1968 - Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
• 1969 - 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY)
• 1969 - 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
• 1969 - Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
• 1970 - "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1
• 1971 - Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
• 1972 - 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
• 1972 - All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cin Reds)
• 1972 - US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
• 1973 - George Harrison pays œ1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
• 1973 - USSR launches Mars 5
• 1975 - "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
• 1976 - Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
• 1976 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
• 1978 - Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
• 1978 - Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
• 1978 - Cin Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
• 1978 - John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
• 1979 - 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
• 1980 - Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
• 1980 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• 1981 - Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
• 1982 - 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
• 1982 - 37th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
• 1982 - France performs nuclear Test
• 1983 - 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
• 1983 - Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
• 1984 - Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
• 1985 - Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
• 1985 - Steve Cram runs world record 1 mile (3:46.32)
• 1985 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• 1985 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1985 - Uganda suspends constitution following coup
• 1986 - Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
• 1987 - Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
• 1987 - USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
• 1988 - Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
• 1988 - Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
• 1989 - Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
• 1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
• 1990 - KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
• 1990 - Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
• 1990 - Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
• 1990 - US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
• 1990 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• 1991 - Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles)
• 1991 - Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium
• 1991 - Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use
• 1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games opens in Barcelona, Spain
• 1992 - Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
• 1993 - 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
• 1993 - 48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
• 1993 - Designer Claude Montana (44) weds his model Wallis Franken (44)
• 1993 - Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
• 1993 - Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France
• 1994 - Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC)
• 1996 - Kim LaPlante of Washington state crowned Mrs United States
• 1997 - Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby
• 1997 - Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
• 1997 - Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
• 1997 - QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
• 1997 - Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
• 1997 - Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC
• 1999 - 54th US Women's Open Golf Championship